Svend E. Hougaard Jensen is a professor of economics at the Copenhagen Business School, a Research Fellow of Netspar (Network for Studies in Pensions, Aging and Retirement), and a Fellow of WDA (World Demographic Association). He graduated with a MSc (Econ) degree from the University of Aarhus and an MA (Econ) degree from the University of Manchester (UK), before earning his PhD (Econ) from the University of London (UK) in 1990. On leave from academia, Hougaard Jensen has served as head of the Division of Economic Analysis within the Ministry of Trade and Industry (MTI) in Denmark. He has published numerous articles in learned journals and books, and he is the author/editor of several books, including Fiscal Aspects of European Monetary Integration (CUP, 1999), Using Dynamic General Equilibrium Models for Policy Analysis (North-Holland, 2000) and Uncertain Demographics and Fiscal Sustainability (CUP, 2008). Hougaard Jensen has also written many policy-oriented papers in Danish/Nordic journals, and he has contributed to agency and government reports. His research has mainly been within the areas of macroeconomics, population economics and international economics, focusing on topics such as pensions, debt sustainability, stabilisation policy in monetary unions, structural reforms in the European Union, and productivity measurement. Hougaard Jensen is a referee for several international journals, and he has served on various assessment committees.

Books:

Uncertain Demographics and Fiscal Sustainability in the European Union, to appear 2008, Cambridge University Press (edited with Juha Alho and Jukka Lassila).

Using Dynamic General Equilibrium Models for Policy Analysis, 2000, Contributions to Economic Analysis, 248, North-Holland (edited with Glenn W. Harrison, Lars Haagen Pedersen and Thomas F. Rutherford).

Fiscal Aspects of European Monetary Integration, 1999, Cambridge University Press (edited with Andrew Hughes Hallett and Michael M. Hutchison).

Macroeconomic Perspectives on the Danish Economy, 1999, Macmillan Press (edited with Torben M. Andersen and Ole Risager).

Articles:

“The Welfare State and Strategies towards Fiscal Sustainability in Denmark”, to appear in Neck, R. and J.-E. Sturm (Eds.), Sustainability of Public Debt, MIT Press, 2008 (with Torben M. Andersen and Lars Haagen Pedersen).

“Uncertain Demographics, Longevity Adjustment of the Retirement Age, and Intergenerational Risk-Sharing”, to appear in Alho, J., S. H. Jensen and J. Lassila (Eds.), Uncertain Demographics and Fiscal Sustainability in the European Union, Cambridge University Press, 2008 (with Ole Hagen Jørgensen)

“Efficiency and Equity Effects of Alternative Social Security Rules”, FinanzArchiv, vol. 60 (3), 2004, pp. 325-358 (with Morten I. Lau and Panu Poutvaara).

“On the Measurement of Relative Demand Shifts for Educated Labour”, Economics Letters, vol. 83 (2), 2004, pp. 245-249 (with Anders Sørensen).

“On the Role of Labour Market Reform for the Enlargement of a Monetary Union”, CESifo Economic Studies, vol. 49 (3), pp. 355-379 (with Andrew Hughes Hallett).

“Distributional Effects of Fiscal Consolidation”, Scandinavian Journal of Economics, vol. 104 (3), 2002, pp. 471-493 (with Thomas F. Rutherford).

”Measuring Educational Heterogeneity and Labour Quality: A Note”, Review of Income and Wealth, vol. 48, 2002, pp. 261-269 (with Mogens Fosgerau and Anders Sørensen).

“Generational and Gender-Specific Aspects of the Tax and Transfer System in Denmark”, Empirical Economics, vol. 22, 1997, pp. 615-635 (with Bernd Raffelhü­schen).

“Wage Rigidity, Monetary Integration and Fiscal Stabi­lisation in Europe”, Review of Inter­national Economics, vol. 5, 1997, pp. 36-54.

“Debt, Deficits and Transition to EMU: A Small Country Analysis”, European Journal of Political Economy, vol. 11, 1995, pp. 3-25 (with Lars Grue Jensen).